[SOLVED] Is the Raspberry Pi Model A+ (Original) still a good board?

[Pythonbites]

I was given an old Raspberry Pi A+ (Original, not 3) by a friend. I was wondering, can you still make cool projects with it? Can you run the latest (or at least a semi-modern) version of raspbian? Or is it just too old nowadays? I wanted to start making small real-world projects that involve lights and buttons from GPIO, and eventually make some more advanced projects, like maybe a camera, speaker and microphone I could control remotely through the local network. Can the Raspberry Pi Model A+ handle these? Thanks for any replies.

 

[NightHawkRMX]

Yes the original raspberry pi can run raspbian and use it for projects.

The gpio capabilities should be simmilar to a newer pi.

 

[Pythonbites]

Yes the original raspberry pi can run raspbian and use it for projects.

The gpio capabilities should be simmilar to a newer pi.

good, thanks for the response

 

[Alabalcho]

I'm using my RPi-A board coupled with DVT-B stick to feed flight tracking websites, and it sees not load at all.

 

[NightHawkRMX]

You can use a pi for moonlight game streaming. Not ideal tho.

 

[Pied Piper]

I have two of the original A+'s running as weather clocks with Sense Hats attached. Performance is probably comparable to a Pi Zero. I like having the full size HDMI and USB versus having to plug adapters into a Pi Zero.
I also have 4 3A+'s running headless, motion eye camera setups.

 

[NightHawkRMX]

Pi zero is cheap, but the micro HDMI loves to break off

 

[Pied Piper]

Most of my Pi Zero setups are running headless. I only ever use the adapter to do my setup. I have a dozen + Zero W's kicking around here.